The Scale
"We make a guess, then we test it."
A balance scale. One side has a feather, the other a rock. The child colors them to show which is heavier.
About this page
A feather and a rock sit on opposite sides of a balance scale, and your child gets to decide how the picture tips. This page turns the core loop of Chapter 3 into a single image, first we guess, then we test. Most kids will confidently predict the rock is heavier, and that confidence is the point, because a hypothesis should be stated before the scale settles. If the result ever surprises us, even better, since wrong answers are the best part of science. Try recreating this scene at home with your own two objects and a pair of hands as the scale.
Talk about it while you color
- Before we color it, which side do you think should hang lower, and why?
- Can you find two things in this room and guess which one is heavier?
- What would you think if the feather side went down instead?